Introduction to self-conditioning yoga (3) Yoga improves cold hands and feet

Foundation article

Five Finger Stretch

Special effects: Poor blood circulation often causes cold hands and feet. The five-finger stretching style pays special attention to the friction between finger stretching and palm, which can promote blood circulation in the hands and improve the feeling of cold hands.

Practice secret: Practice 3 to 5 times a day, stay in the completion stance for 5 to 10 seconds.

Precautions: Use some force appropriately when rubbing between your palms to feel heat being transferred between your hands.

1. King Kong sits in a sitting position, hands and palms facing each other, turning up and down with the palms as the axis, and feeling the heat moving left and right in the palms.

2. Hold your hands with your fingers crossed, inhale and slowly open your fingers, try to outwards. Feel your hands like a blooming flower, stretch outwards as much as possible. Breathe, your hands slowly close and clench them again. Repeat 8 to 10 times.

3. Hold the fingers of your left hand with your right hand and stretch them one by one from the base to the tip of your finger. Accelerate blood circulation to the peripheral nerves of your fingers.

Consolidation Chapter

Foot relaxation

Characteristic effects: This action mainly stimulates the nerves in the feet, promotes blood circulation in the center of the feet, improves the coldness of the feet, and also exercises the muscles of the legs.

Practice secret: Practice 2 - 3 times a day, stay in the completion stance for 5 - 10 seconds.

Notes: When massaging the soles of your feet with your elbows, you should pay attention to the correct acupuncture points Yongquan points to truly play a role.

1. Sit with your legs crossed, place your left foot on your right thigh, and use your right elbow joint to massage vigorously from the center of your foot to the tip of your foot to make the reverse area of the center of your foot warm.

2. Massage the tips of your feet with both hands to accelerate blood circulation to the peripheral nerves of your toes.

insider tips

Tips for warming up cold hands and feet

If you are malnourished, often eat cold food, or you have not properly conditioned after a serious illness, resulting in deficiency of cold constitution and deficiency of both qi and blood. You may easily have cold feelings in your hands and feet, accompanied by diarrhea, fear of cold, sore back, pale face, and increased secretions. Can be moisturized with angelica mutton soup. Boil 15 grams of angelica, 5 slices of ginger, 100 grams of mutton, and 15 grams of processed seeds with appropriate amount of water. Eat meat and drink soup, twice a week.

People with emotional disorders often fail and eating disorders can easily cause stagnation of qi, affecting blood circulation, poor peripheral blood circulation, and cold hands and feet. Usually, you can do more shaking your hands to help the blood flow. That is, lift your hands horizontally, inhale and shake them naturally. Shake them 30 to 50 times each time, twice a day is the best.

3 characteristics that distinguish yoga from other sports

Balance and unity of body and mind: Yoga mainly pays attention to the balance and unity of body, mind and soul. It is necessary to concentrate consciousness and keep the body still in a certain posture for a period of time to achieve the unity of body and mind. Therefore, the movements of yoga are slow, compared with other sports, it has many advantages, because most sports do not pay much attention to the level of consciousness and only focus on external movements.

Body harmony and smooth movements: Yoga maintains the balance and stability of the body, uses various movements to move the whole body, stimulates the deviated parts, and makes corrections and adjustments to make the body movements smooth and diseases are naturally eliminated; it can also be used to train a person's patience, thereby restoring spiritual peace.

Most of the general exercise focuses on a certain part, which not only easily causes the body to be tilted, but may even damage health. It also aims at speed, weight, number of times, and victory, and has the requirement to obtain the highest record. Therefore, exercise uses competition to stimulate progress, while yoga is not comparable to others.

Eliminate fatigue and restore physical fitness: The sweat you shed from practicing yoga is emitted from the body, which is different from general exercise that relies on muscles to consume energy. Doing yoga can restore physical fitness, but exercise can consume physical fitness. Therefore, practicing yoga when you are tired can make your whole body feel comfortable. (Editor in charge: Liang Liying)